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Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 12:35:56 +0200
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-# Thinglaunch - a simple entry box for X11
-
-The first intention, as done by the original creator Matt Johnston
-<matt@ucc.asn.au>, was to launch simple commandlines.
-
-In 2011 the single file project was extended by features like Unicode
-support, a prompt and an ssh-askpass compatibility layer.
-
-## Installation
-
- % tar -xzvf thinglaunch-*.tar.gz
- % cd thinglaunch
- % make
- % sudo PREFIX=/usr make install
-
-This will create the executable »thinglaunch« and »thingaskpass« in
-»/usr/bin«. Thinglaunch will ask for a command and execute it and
-thingaskpass can be used as a SSH_ASKPASS parameter value, which will
-be used by ssh-agent to gather the password for private keys.
-
-## Usage
-
- # Get some input string and print it to stdout. There will
- # be the prompt prepended "to stdout> ".
- % thinglaunch -o -p "to stdout> "
-
- # Ask for a command, which will be executed. During entering
- # the command, the entered string will be replaced by asterisks.
- % thinglaunch -s -p "secret cmd> "
-
- # This symlink predefines -s, -o and -p "secret> ".
- % ln -s thinglaunch thingaskpass
- % ./thingaskpass
-
- # This symlink predefined -s, -o and takes the prompt as first
- # argument.
- % ln -s thinglaunch thingsudoaskpass
- % ./thingsudoaskpass
-
-## SSH_ASKPASS
-
-If you set SSH_ASKPASS to the PATH to thingaskpass (usually /usr/bin/
-thingaskpass), then ssh-agent will use this command for asking for pass-
-words.
-
-## SUDO_ASKPASS
-
-This is the same as SSH_ASKPASS, but here you need to set SUDO_ASKPASS
-to the PATH to thingsudoaskpass (usually /usr/bin/thingsudoaskpass).
-
-
-Have fun!
-
DIR diff --git a/thinglaunch.1 b/thinglaunch.1
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+.Dd July 02, 2011
+.Dt THINGLAUNCH 1
+.Os
+.
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm thinglaunch
+.Nd a simple prompt for X11
+.
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm
+.Bk -words
+.Op Fl o
+.Op Fl s
+.Op Fl p Ar prompt
+.Ek
+.
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Bd -filled
+.Nm
+is a simple password prompt for X11, which will input a string and then do
+various things with it. It is used as password prompt, execution prompt and
+can be easily extended.
+.Ed
+.
+.Sh IMPLEMENTATION
+.Bd -filled
+Installation is as straighforward as grabbing the tar.gz file, extracting
+it and running
+.Qq "make; make install;"
+inside the
+.Qq "thinglaunch-*"
+directory.
+The prefix for the installation can easily set using
+.Qq "PREFIX=/usr make install".
+.Ed
+.
+.Sh OPTIONS
+.Nm
+options and default settings.
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width ".Fl test Ao Ar string Ac"
+.
+.It Fl o
+Print prompted string to stdout.
+.
+.It Fl s
+The input string will be shown as
+.Qq "*"
+instead of cleartext.
+.
+.Fl Fl p Ar prompt
+Specify the prompt, which should be shown before the text entry.
+.
+.El
+.
+.Sh CUSTOMIZATION
+.Bd -filled
+.Nm
+is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the
+source code.
+.Ed
+.
+.Sh SYMLINKS
+.Bd -filled
+The behaviour of
+.Nm
+can be controlled using various symlinks to the main executable or by renaming
+the executable.
+.Ed
+.Bd -filled
+When
+.Nm is run as
+.Qq "thingaskpass",
+then -s and -o are implied and a prompt of
+.Qq "secret> "
+is set. This is useful when used with
+.Qq "ssh-agent",
+which respects the
+.Ev SSH_ASKPASS
+environment variable.
+.Ed
+.Bd -filled
+Calling
+.Nm
+as
+.Qq "thingsudoaskpass"
+implies -s, -o and a prompt according to the first commandline parameter or
+.Qq "secret sudo> ".
+This mode is useful in conjunction with
+.Qq "sudo",
+which respects the
+.Ev SUDO_ASKPASS
+environment variable.
+.Ed
+.
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+.Bd -filled
+Get some input string and print it to stdout. The prompt will be changed to
+.Qq "to stdout> ".
+.Ed
+.Bd -literal
+ % thinglaunch -s -p "to stdout> "
+
+.Ed
+.Bd -filled
+Ask for a command, which will be executed. The entered string will be secured
+using
+.Qq "*".
+.Ed
+.Bd -literal
+ % thinglaunch -s -p "secret cmd> "
+
+.Ed
+.
+.Sh FILES
+LICENSE, config.def.h, config.h
+.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+See LICENSE file for authors in the distribution.
+.
+.Sh LICENSE
+.Nm
+is released under the MIT/X Consortium License.
+.
+.Sh BUGS
+.Ss "Reporting Bugs"
+Report bugs to:
+.An "Christoph Lohmann" Aq 20h@R-36.net
+